SPOKANE, Wash. -- There was the barrage of 3-pointers, the left-handed spin move, the steady work in the post, the can't-miss free throw shooting.

Pick a skill and Adreian Payne has it. The 6-foot-10 senior put everything on display Thursday in a career-high, 41-point performance that helped Michigan State look every bit a March Madness favorite as the fourth-seeded Spartans beat Delaware 93-78.

Payne's overall line: 10 for 15 from the field, 4 for 5 from 3-point range, a tournament-record 17 for 17 from the free throw line. He chipped in eight rebounds, too.

He scored 12 straight points over a 105-second stretch in the first half to help the Spartans (27-8) open an 18-point lead over the 13th-seeded Blue Hens (25-10).

Those points came three at a time -- a trio of spot-up 3s and one ridiculous, spinning left-hander from the paint while he was being mugged by Carl Baptiste. Payne stepped to the line to make the free throw with his right hand -- the hand he shoots most of his shots with -- and by then, he had pretty much proven his point.

But there was more. With the game out of reach, he played almost to the end and the Spartans fed him. He dunked with 4:26 left to reach his career high and break Greg Kelser's record, set in the title year of 1979, for most points in an NCAA tournament game by a Spartan.

A few minutes later, Payne became the first player to crack 40 in a March Madness game since Stephen Curry hit the number for Davidson in a 2008 game against Gonzaga.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Billy Donovan's bench came up big, bailing out top-seeded Florida in a tight game against what was supposed to be an overmatched opponent.

Dorian Finney-Smith scored 16 points, most of them on dunks, and the Gators used a second-half surge to beat No. 16 seed Albany 67-55 in the NCAA tournament Thursday.

The Gators (33-2) showed some vulnerability, though, while extending their school-record winning streak to 27 games.

Donovan's team sleepwalked through the first half, swapping the lead back and forth with the pesky Great Danes, but Florida's bench provided a much-needed spark.

Finney-Smith, the Southeastern Conference's sixth man of the year, was 6-of-10 shooting and tough to handle in the post. Freshman guard Kasey Hill, who wasn't sure he would be able to play because of turf toe, chipped in 10 points off the bench and was dynamic on the open floor.

Patric Young finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds, his first double-double of the season. Casey Prather (16 points) and Scottie Wilbekin (10) also reached double figures for Florida, which will play ninth-seeded Pittsburgh in the South Region on Saturday.

DJ Evans led Albany (19-15) with 21 points and seven rebounds. He set the tone for the Great Danes early, but couldn't do enough to pull off the most elusive enough in college basketball.

Florida's win made No. 1 seeds 117-0 against 16 seeds since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.